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White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better by Saira Rao, Regina Jackson

4 reviews

fkshg8465's review

challenging emotional informative inspiring fast-paced

5.0

A must read for anyone serious about antiracism.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Cultural appropriation, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Body shaming, Gaslighting, Racism, Xenophobia, Classism, Fatphobia, Misogyny, Pandemic/Epidemic, Toxic relationship, Colonisation, and Islamophobia

skudiklier's review

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

I truly think this book should be required reading for every white woman. It's fairly comprehensive and it's so much more direct than other antiracism books I've read; there's no way you can read this without at least considering your own racism and the ways you perpetuate white supremacism.

This book isn't perfect (it weirdly never mentions capitalism despite that feeling a bit like the elephant in the room at some points) but it doesn't need to be. It's an amazing wake-up call for white women and I really think we'd make a lot more progress more quickly if we could just snap our fingers and have everyone read this. And not just read it, but really really think about how your own racism plays into this. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Racism, and Sexism

Moderate: Police brutality, Pandemic/Epidemic, Xenophobia, Hate crime, Colonisation, Death, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Racial slurs, Cultural appropriation, Violence, Islamophobia, and Classism

Minor: Pregnancy, Deportation, Mass/school shootings, Eating disorder, and Bullying

rorikae's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

'White Women: Everything You Already Know about Your Own Racism and How to Do Better' by Regina Jackson and Saira Rao should be mandatory reading for every white woman. This book is extremely direct in how it approaches how we as white women uphold white supremacy through daily acts of racism. I believe that many people will shy away from how directly the authors approach this subject but Jackson and Rao call on every white woman to interrogate our own actions and how we can do better. They delve into different aspects such as the violence inherent in white silence, 'microaggresions,' racism at work, racism at school, and so much more. 
This is ultimately one of the most comprehensive call-ins that directly calls white women to do better. I honestly think that every white woman should read this text, interrogate their own reactions to what Jackson and Rao are saying, and return to this regularly to check in on if they have been doing the work. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Hate crime, Bullying, Gaslighting, Grief, Gun violence, Racism, Violence, and Misogyny

Minor: Cultural appropriation

saskiahill's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

A must read. Some of the descriptions brought such clarity to topics I had an inkling of, but didn't necessarily have the words for. Powerful, motivating, and the good kind of uncomfortable.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Xenophobia, Misogyny, Cultural appropriation, Sexism, Gaslighting, and Racism

Moderate: Police brutality, Murder, Slavery, Gun violence, Genocide, and Colonisation

Minor: Racial slurs and Pandemic/Epidemic

There are uncomfortable topics covered by this book, but they are discussed as bad things, they're not encouraged or supported in the text. E.g. there are explicit examples of cultural appropriation, but the book is pointing out why this is wrong.